The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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